- Teacher: Ahmed Salih
This course provides the students with an introduction to the concepts and scientific principles of energy storage systems, and provides a broad understanding of the operation of such systems. The course expands across multidisciplinary concepts of thermodynamics, heat transfer and circuit theory. Techniques and methods of assessing the efficiency and design of energy storage systems are introduced. Both utility-scale and small-scale energy storage are discussed and compared in terms of addressing the intermittency of renewable energy components of modern electricity networks. Topics covered include electrical, chemical, thermal, mechanical, electrochemical, thermochemical, and thermomechanical energy storage systems as well as grid integration issues. A broad range of systems are introduced, discussed, and compared such as capacitive and super-capacitive systems, superconductive magnetic energy storage systems (SMES), hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyzer, compressed air (CAES), flywheel (FES), pumped hydro (PHS), heat pump, flow batteries, lead acid, lithium ion, etc. Moreover, the course covers topics such as technology demand and costs and advanced energy storage concepts.
- Teacher: Kifah Jawadi
In this laboratory course students use knowledge acquired in earlier courses to solve real design, manufacturing, and operational problems relevant to industry including a design-and-build project. Oral and written communications as-well-as teamwork are addressed. The course covers the following topics through lectures and experiments: health and safety, energy loss in pipes and fitting, flow measurements, flow of a uniform current around different shapes, heat transfer, analysis of experimental data, flow systems in water channel, tensile, hardness and heat treatment and different sensors.
- Teacher: Kifah Jawadi
This course will discuss in detail the various processes used to treat raw natural gas and clean them for midstream delivery. It will first introduce natural gas processing and discusses the compression, sweetening, and dehydration plants. Furthermore, this course will cover petroleum refinery processes and operations required to convert crude oil into valuable products. Finally, emphasis will be placed on developing a basic understanding of petroleum chemistry with applications to process design & ramp; analysis of typical refinery operations.
- Teacher: Kifah Jawadi
This course introduces the science of heat transfer and its applications.
- Teacher: Ali Alwaeli
